Tips for a balanced diet in the quarantine due to COVID-19

For these days that we have to stay at home, I want to give you some recommendations for healthy lifestyle and eating.
It is important to add protein shakes as part of the strategy, to maintain or lose weight for those who need it.

The first question focuses on what we should eat, even not only to not gain weight but to lose weight for those who were waiting for the moment to be calm and focused to try.

The ideal way to control blood sugar and maintain weight would be to reduce carbohydrates such as bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, industrial pastries, sugar, chocolate, dairy products such as cheeses and alcohol to a minimum.
Or eliminate it from the diet if what we want is to lose weight.

As for fruits, the best are red fruits, such as blueberries, currants, raspberries and apples.
These fruits have a low glycemic index so they will help us to keep sugar at bay.

The vegetables with a low glycemic index that we will choose would be: endive, asparagus, chives, celery, bok choy, zucchini, cucumber, green pepper, parsley, radish, red cabbage, lettuce, chard, green beans, spinach, lamb’s lettuce, fennel, watercress, white endive and broccoli.

We should also eat more protein, but this does not mean that we should eat more meat.

Protein is one of the best nutrients to help burn fat.

Proteins can be anything from chickpeas, lentils, tofu, seitan – although I don’t recommend it so much because it is gluten – and obviously fish.
Any type of fish, although sardines and anchovies are the best.
Tuna and salmon 1 time a week each (also canned tuna).

You should eat protein 5 times a day.
That means it can be hard to know what to eat for breakfast or mid-morning and mid-afternoon.

That’s why I recommend using pea protein isolates, rice protein, and lupin powder, to prepare protein shakes for mid-morning and mid-afternoon or at breakfast.

Some recipes:

BREAKFAST:

If you like coffee, prepare the following smoothie:

-Milk (ideal vegetable drink) + 1 scoop of pea protein from Salengei’s Active Foods + 1 coffee.

For those of you who don’t like coffee:

-Orange juice with two scoops of Lupin Protein from Active Foods by Salengei.

MID-MORNING OR MID-AFTERNOON SNACKS:

-Plant-based milk with 1 scoop of pea protein from Active Foods by Salengei and 1 scoop of cocoa from Active Foods by Salengei.

–Pea protein with cocoa and collagen from Active Foods by Salengei for those who want to improve the collagen of their skin and bones.
You only have to put 2 measures of this (up to line 40 of the scoop) and beat with 300 ml of vegetable milk.

Also another option that I love is the following:

Protein shakes combining fruits such as mango, cocoa, banana, nuts and avocado.

1) Plant-based milk + half an avocado + berries + 1 scoop of rice protein from Active Foods by Salengei.

2) Vegetable Milk + half mango + rice protein from Active Foods by Salengei.

3) Plant-based milk + 1/2 banana + 1 tablespoon of Salengei Active Foods Cocoa + Salengei Active Foods Rice Protein + 3 nuts.

You can also have protein bars as a snack, there are many brands, including gluten-free and lactose-free vegans.

CHALLENGES

Therefore, I want to propose a complement: the Active Silhouette by Salengei.
It contains saffron in its formula, in addition to other ingredients such as chromium that helps control blood sugar and plant extracts such as green tea and garcinia cambogia among other natural ingredients, which in synergy are adjuvants in weight loss diets.

I hope these tips have helped you and help you to be in top shape and without having gained any weight when the “Stay at Home” ends.